Capacitance and capacitors
The first known practical realization of a capacitor, dates back to 1745 from Germany, when Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania 1 found that electric charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator through a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar [].The scientist''s hand and the water acted as conductors, while the jar was the dielectric